Agreed. In fact, Minneapolis (a Midwestern city) was recently declared the most literate city in the USA. Not really rural, being such a major city, but still in the Midwest.
It is kind of like kind of like the post office having the right to open and read your mail.
Exactly! (Apologies, I just posted almost exactly the same comment as this, not having seen your own response -- still, good to know someone's on the same wavelength!)
It's kind of like leaving a sofa on the curb not expecting it to be removed or like not having curtains on your windows and expecting people to not look in as the drive by.
I disagree. An ISP is a company that has agreed to provide the user a service, therefore it's more like having a mail man and expecting him not to open your mail... except, of course, that the mail man gets in trouble, deep deep trouble, if he is caught.
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Agreed. In fact, Minneapolis (a Midwestern city) was recently declared the most literate city in the USA. Not really rural, being such a major city, but still in the Midwest.
It is kind of like kind of like the post office having the right to open and read your mail.
Exactly! (Apologies, I just posted almost exactly the same comment as this, not having seen your own response -- still, good to know someone's on the same wavelength!)
It's kind of like leaving a sofa on the curb not expecting it to be removed or like not having curtains on your windows and expecting people to not look in as the drive by.
I disagree. An ISP is a company that has agreed to provide the user a service, therefore it's more like having a mail man and expecting him not to open your mail... except, of course, that the mail man gets in trouble, deep deep trouble, if he is caught.